Ballin Mundson, directeur d'un casino, prend sous sa protection un jeune Américain, Johnny Farrell, après l'avoir sauvé d'une mort certaine. Ballin, devant s'absenter, confie la direction de son établissement à Johnny. Il revient quelque temps plus tard marié à Gilda, l'ancienne maîtresse de Johnny.
C’est l’ultime portrait d’une figure complexe : l’autrichienne Hedy Lamarr. Deux vies, l’une officielle : actrice qui fascine le monde par sa beauté et par sa liberté sexuelle scandaleuse, l’une plus secrète, un esprit scientifique insoupçonné qui participa à l’invention d’un système secret de communication dans les années 1940. C’est une invitation contemporaine à redécouvrir l’enfant sauvage partie à la conquête d’Hollywood pour fuir son mari.
A Texas tech start-up breaks every crowdfunding record in the books, but they lose it all when a patent troll shuts them down. Refusing to go down without a fight, our heroes use a legal loophole to beat the trolls at their own game. By obtaining a patent for BEING a patent troll, they're able to... troll the trolls.
The corruption runs deeper than you'd ever imagine. A multi-billion dollar industry you've never heard of. This is the world Patent Trolls thrive in: A world created for them by our own U. S. Patent system. You can be sued for clicking on a hyperlink, using your own scanner, or sharing your Wi-Fi! It sounds insane, but the reality is even crazier. Patent Trolls look for obvious ideas, patent them, and then sue anyone they claim is infringing on their idea. People's lives and businesses are being destroyed.. and they have no way out. “The Patent Scam” exposes the underbelly of this system, and the people that commit this practice.
"Give me ten million dollars and trust me, we'll deliver a low-cost microprocessor compatible with Intel". This was former IBM Fellow and Dell Senior VP Glenn Henry's 1995 pitch to start a microprocessor company focused on low-cost Intel-compatible processors ("x86"). This documentary follows Henry and his team as they race to complete their latest chip, and offers an inside look at Centaur's unique management environment.
What threads of history bind Manhattan's Ground Zero to those of Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Or connect sight to truth, games to war, or the silkworm to the drone? What does the United States hold to be the role of science in warfare? How has war historically been waged in Buddhist traditions? These are some of the topics addressed in Eyewar: 80 minutes of found footage which traces the development of the digital image from the maps of the second century to the screens of the twenty-first, and the uses of the field of cybernetics from Japan in the 1940s to Chile in the 1970s and Iraq in the 1990s.
La réalisatrice enquête sur une piraterie d’un nouveau type, la bio-piraterie : des spéculateurs du Nord déposent des brevets sur des organismes vivants qu’ils affirment avoir créés, spoliant les pays du Sud, qui entrent en résistance. Au Mexique, le haricot est l’aliment de base depuis l’époque précolombienne. 10.651 variétés poussent sur son territoire, dont une trentaine de haricots jaunes. Mais Larry Proctor, habitant du Colorado, se prétend inventeur du haricot jaune et l’a breveté en 1999, sous le nom d’Enola. En conséquence, un paysan mexicain lui doit des royalties dès lors qu’il veut acheter ou vendre ces haricots qu’il plante depuis toujours. Les producteurs mexicains qualifient cette pratique de vol. En Inde, le margousier est utilisé depuis 3000 ans comme médicament et comme insecticide. Or un géant américain de l’industrie chimique, Grace, a obtenu un brevet européen sur sa fonction fongicide.
Patent Absurdity explores the case of software patents and the history of judicial activism that led to their rise, and the harm being done to software developers and the wider economy. The film is based on a series of interviews conducted during the Supreme Court's review of in re Bilski — a case that could have profound implications for the patenting of software.